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Adjective swelling has 1 sense
- swelling - becoming puffy as from internal bleeding or accumulation of other fluids; "put ice on the swelling ankle"
Antonym: uninjured (indirect, via injured)
Noun swelling has 2 senses
- swelling, puffiness, lump - abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement
--1 is a kind of symptom
--1 has particulars:
- intumescence, intumescency, swelling - the swelling of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)
--2 is a kind of chemical process, chemical change, chemical action
Verb swell has 6 senses
- swell - increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "The music swelled to a crescendo"
--1 is one way to increase
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- swell, puff up - become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"
--2 is one way to act, behave, do
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- swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce - expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
--3 is one way to expand
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Did his feet swell?
- well up, swell - as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things; "Strong emotions welled up"; "Smoke swelled from it"
--4 is one way to originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow
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- well, swell - come up; "Tears well in her eyes"
--5 is one way to surface, come up, rise up, rise
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- swell - cause to become swollen; "The water swells the wood"
--6 is one way to grow
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